Pre-Prep & Nursery Curriculum Pre-Prep Years
Pre-Prep Years
If a child is safe and secure, happy and motivated, they will learn without realising. School is a place to come to experiment, explore, meet friends and enjoy learning.
At Clayesmore we offer each child the opportunity to access a broad curriculum using experienced, specialist staff who take advantage of the excellent facilities available throughout the year. This enables all of the pupils to find their strengths and to excel in many different areas, building up confidence, pride and self-esteem.
Our after school clubs are available to all every evening and include many craft based, musical and physical activities.
Our small class sizes and high staff pupil ratio helps to ensure that all children who leave our Pre-Prep will take with them a sound knowledge of numeracy and literacy skills with a high proportion of pupils achieving attainment above their expected levels. Alongside these skills we also place emphasis on building confidence by offering a wide and exciting range of creative and physical opportunities.
During the Reception year all of the children work towards completing the Early learning goals of the Foundation Stage and aim to begin working within Key Stage one. In years 1 and 2 the curriculum follows the National Numeracy and Literacy Strategies and QCA guidelines but here at Clayesmore we have the advantage of using the good practise from these documents but alongside this developing knowledge and understanding through the wider curriculum providing a more stimulating learning environment.